Raúl Ruiz
filmmaker (1941-2011)
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- July 25, 1941 · Puerto Montt
- Died
- August 19, 2011 · 12th arrondissement of Paris
- Nationality
- Chile, France
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor
- Movement
- surrealism
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1Three Crowns of the SailorLes Trois Couronnes du matelot
1983 · France · fantasy, drama
Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1983 #7 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1982 #9 · Kehr's annual top 10 1984 #6
0.964 citations - 20.751 citation
- 3Time RegainedLe Temps retrouvé
1998 · France / Italy · drama
Film Comment year-end poll 2000 #5 · Hoberman's annual top 10 2000 #2
0.702 citations - 4Mysteries of LisbonMystères de Lisbonne
2010 · France / Brazil / Portugal · drama
Film Comment year-end poll 2011 #6
0.361 citation - 5Life Is a DreamMémoire des apparences
1986 · France · drama, fantasy
Hoberman's annual top 10 1988 #8 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
0.272 citations - 6Night Across the StreetLa noche de enfrente
2012 · France / Chile · drama
Film Comment year-end poll 2013 #32
0.201 citation - 7City of PiratesLa Ville des pirates
1983 · France / Portugal · fantasy, drama
Kehr's annual top 10 1985 #8
0.161 citation - 80.141 citation
- 90.111 citation
- 10Manoel's DestiniesManoel dans l'île des merveilles
1985 · France · fantasy
Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
0.111 citation - 110.111 citation
- 120.111 citation
Complete filmography
All 59 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1963La maleta
- 1968Three Sad Tigers
- 1970¡Qué hacer!
- 1970The Penal Colony
- 1971Nadie dijo nada
- 1972The Expropriation
- 1973El realismo socialista
- 1973Little White Dove
- 1975Dialogues of Exiles
- 1977Colloque de chiens
- 1978The Suspended Vocation
- 1979The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
- 1980Le Borgne
- 1980Snakes and Ladders
- 1980The New City
- 1981The Territory
- 1982On Top of the Whale
- 1983Berenice
- 1983City of Pirates
- 1983Three Crowns of the Sailor
- 1983Vanishing Point
- 1984Régime sans pain
- 1985Manoel's Destinies
- 1985The Insomniac on the Bridge
- 1985Treasure Island
- 1986Life Is a Dream
- 1986Mammame
- 1986Richard III
- 1987Professor Taranne
- 1987The Blind Owl
- 1990The Golden Boat
- 1993Dark at Noon
- 1994Viaggio clandestino - Vite di santi e di peccatori
- 1995À propos de Nice, la suite
- 1996Three Lives and Only One Death
- 1997Genealogies of a Crime
- 1997Le film à venir
- 1998Shattered Image
- 1998Time Regained
- 2000Comedy of Innocence
- 2000Love Torn in a Dream
- 2001Savage Souls
- 2002Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody
- 2003A Place Among the Living
- 2003That Day
- 2003Vertige de la page blanche
- 2004Days in the Country
- 2005The Lost Domain
- 2006Klimt
- 2007To Each His Own Cinema
- 2008Litoral
- 2008Nucingen House
- 2010A Closed Book
- 2010Mysteries of Lisbon
- 2012Lines of Wellington
- 2012Night Across the Street
- 2017The Wandering Soap Opera
- —Brise-glace
- —Fado majeur et mineur